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A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it's about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures; and it's about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned. Everyone remembers what it's like to be seventeen. The conversatio ...Show more
A Small Revolution in Germany by Philip Hensher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it's about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures; and it's about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned. Everyone remembers what it's like to be seventeen. The conversati ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 1: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan by Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of thing, you see' The British short story tradition is probably the richest, most varied and historically extensive in the world. This new anthology celebrates the full diversity and energy of its ...Show more
Penguin Book Of The British Short Story: Volume II: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith by Philip Hensher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
She would tear the house down - shatter the windows, slash the furniture, flood the baths, fire the curtains!' Hilarious, exuberant, surreal, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular and above all unexpected- this extraordinary selection celebrates the British short story from the 1920s to the present day. F ...Show more
The Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'It's the book you should give someone who thinks they don't like novels ... Here is surely a future prizewinner that is easy to read and impossible to forget' Melissa Katsoulis, The TimesThe things history will do at the bidding of loveOn a warm Sunday afternoon, Nazia and Sharif are preparing for a fa ...Show more
The Friendly Ones by Philip Hensher
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'It's the book you should give someone who thinks they don't like novels ... Here is surely a future prizewinner that is easy to read and impossible to forget' Melissa Katsoulis, The TimesThe things history will do at the bidding of loveOn a warm Sunday afternoon, Nazia and Sharif are preparing for a fa ...Show more
The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by Philip Hensher (Editor)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A richly varied anthology showcases a teeming, strange, magical world, about to be brought to an end by the catastrophe of 1914The quarter century or so before the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain. Fuelled by a large new ...Show more
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, 'The Northern Clemency' is Philip ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: I: From Daniel Defoe to John Buchan by Philip Hensher
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Penguin Book of the British Short Story
Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story. This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. ...Show more
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: II: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith by Philip Hensher
$55.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin Book of the British Short Story Ser.
Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain the limitless possibilities of the British short story. This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and tones. ...Show more
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers' William Boyd'Surefooted and emotionally generous ... A serious achievement' Guardian'Masterful' Telegraph'A revelation' SpectatorThe new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The North ...Show more
To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes emerges. ...Show more
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